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The New York Times @nytimesBreaking News: A Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, was found to be passing intelligence to Beijing.
Will Cooper @wcooper19Industrial robotics and advanced manufacturing are foundational to America’s defense industrial base. Securing domestic production capacity isn’t just an economic priority – it’s a national security imperative.
Ashley Gold @ashleyrgoldNEW from me: Britain’s AI testing agency outguns US Britain wants to pour another £120 million — roughly $160 million — into a government lab that tests the world’s most powerful AI models, an infusion of cash that alone is more than 10 times the annual budget of its US counterpart. It contrasts sharply with the approach in the US, where federal efforts to evaluate AI are receiving far less cash and are shared by different parts of government.
Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBenHere is an English translation of the statement Flávio Bolsonaro just released: I address the Brazilian people and the international community as the true president-elect of Brazil. First of all, I would like to thank President Milei for his courage, sense of justice and respect for the law, and President Trump and the wonderful American people for welcoming me. This is a land of liberty and of brothers who share the same values as the good people of my country. President Trump is a great defender of freedom of expression. On Sunday night, I watched in horror as electoral fraud unfolded before my eyes. The illegitimate and illegal actions of Lula’s former lawyer allowed a mathematical impossibility to become reality, with Lula gaining more than 10 million votes between the first and second rounds. A ruling by the Federal Supreme Court (STF), overriding the jurisdiction of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), extended voting at the last minute, and the order arrived only after the legal closing time, when the polls had already closed. Voters were subjected to different rules. So far, the TSE has confined itself to defending the extension of voting hours, without providing even a single credible answer. And these procedural violations are not the only problem. Throughout the campaign, there were abuses of political and economic power and use of the state apparatus in support of reelection. These are serious acts, expressly prohibited by law, that justify annulling the election of the Lula–Alckmin ticket. The regime’s response to my challenge came swiftly. As if following a prearranged plan, seven minutes after this repugnant electoral fraud, the judge set the regime’s machinery of political persecution in motion. This judge is implicated in an enormous corruption scandal and directly named in the investigation he used to try to seize my passports. He would very likely be in prison had they not prevented me from taking office. He was legally disqualified from the outset and clearly lacks the impartiality required to initiate any judicial proceedings against me. His mere participation in the proceedings reveals the extent of the arbitrary and unlawful conduct underway. It was not my intention to leave my homeland, but I know exactly where this is heading. This is the classic playbook for a coup d’état. The political persecution that began with my father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, and spread to thousands of other ordinary, patriotic Brazilians and even American citizens has a single objective: to silence anyone who disagrees with the regime operating outside the rule of law that has been established in Brazil through a Supreme Court captured by the Workers’ Party criminal organization. To be clear, there is no arrest warrant against me, because I have committed no crime. What exists is a politically motivated witch hunt intended to make me a hostage and a target of blackmail to protect the corrupt Supreme Court justices from impeachment. Here is the persecution playbook: passport confiscation, an electronic ankle monitor, censorship, house arrest, a sham trial and, finally, a politically motivated conviction. I will not subject my family to this, and my country does not deserve to suffer this international humiliation again. Faced with the political weaponization of Brazil’s justice system, I brought my family to the United States, where we are safe. Once again, I thank President Trump and the American government for welcoming us and giving us the legal protections we no longer have in Brazil. I want to be clear: I did not flee Brazil; I left for Brazil’s sake. I left a regime operating outside the rule of law so I could be the leader my people deserve. Silenced, imprisoned and censored, as my father is, I could not provide that leadership, and we would be left at the mercy of the institutional theater of an emasculated opposition controlled by a Supreme Court full of the regime’s lackeys.
Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBenI hope it is actually true that Flavio has gone into exile (which is Lindy). If he stays in Brazil, he is a useful hostage. At this point, the fight for the future of Brazil will take place in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies with judicial (and other) impeachments.
Andrew Jones @AJ_FIBehold: The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on challenges to security in space, including an NEI image of China’s spaceplane from Maxar, taken in 2024.
POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEuropeThe EU was split today over whether to offer “associate membership” status to Canada, with several countries refusing to sign off on a statement containing that phrase just 48 hours before a summit between the two sides in Montreal.
MTS @MTSliveSITUATION DETECTED: Cohere caught an Alibaba Qwen3.8 model ignoring instructions to write a defensive cyber rule, instead inventorying its host machine and attempting to exfiltrate a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing.
Japan Ministry of Defense/Self-Defense Forces @ModJapan_en
RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9Bukele has reminded the world of a very simple truth: You don't have to tolerate crime. You don't have to let a vanishingly thin froth of scum ruin the drink for everyone else. It's a decision you make. You can choose differently.
Financial Times @FTTexas-based Warhound, set up to clone and genetically edit working canines as a ‘Captain America programme for dogs’, has raised $200mn from investors.
Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org“The ultimate test of the United Nations in terms of breaking the ceiling that exists for women in terms of equality between men and women would be if they appoint a woman secretary-general,” says Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, a candidate for UN secretary-general and the permanent representative of Guyana to the United Nations. “What we know is that the more we have women involved in peace negotiations, the more sustainable the agreements for peace are. And so I would certainly want to promote more of that, more women being involved, but human rights for all everywhere, including women. . . . Who better to do that than a woman secretary-general?” Watch the full conversation:
Breaking Defense @BreakingDefenseThe Pentagon has gone too far in using the Other Transaction Authority. Congress should act.
Rya Jetha @ryajethaWhat a lede from @TheEconomist
Department of State @StateDeptSECRETARY RUBIO: People need to grow up when it comes to foreign policy a little bit. I don't think it's unusual for the three most powerful, nuclear-armed nations on Earth to have their leaders communicate with each other.
